This demonstration briefly explains the history of the universe using jars and colored beads. The jars represent matter/objects and the beads represent the composition of those objects.
See the full activity at https://www.spsnational.org/programs/outreach/composition-universe

published:26 Jun 2017

views:54

explore solar system formation, tides, and planetary rings using a spandex sheet.
See the full activity at https://www.spsnational.org/programs/outreach/fabric-universe-part-2

Wondering how to get people as excited about astronomy as you are? We'll show you how! For more tips and activities, go to http://astrosociety.org/SharingTheUniverse/wow.html

published:20 Feb 2010

views:1137

Cosmologist KendrickSmith gives a guided tour through the expanding universe, from the big bang to our present-day understanding of dark matter and other cosmic phenomena, during his Feb. 4, 2015 public lecture at Perimeter Institute.
Hit the subscribe button to see more PI lectures, interviews, animations, and more.
Find out about upcoming Perimeter Institute Public Lectures: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/general-public/public-lecture-series
Join the conversation:
www.twitter.com/perimeter
www.facebook.com/pi_outreach

published:06 Feb 2015

views:47472

In a flash known as the Big Bang, our universe was born. Yet for hundreds of thousands of years, light from the Big Bang was scattered and trapped in a dense fog. Eventually, though, that light made its “great escape” and the universe was plunged into total darkness. These cosmic “Dark Ages” lasted for millions of years until the first stars and galaxies burst to life and began to illuminate the universe. However, no one knows just when this happened or what the earliest stars and galaxies were really like, because we’ve never seen them.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, currently under construction and due to launch in 2018, will use its powerful infrared vision to spy the very first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe and help us understand how today’s universe came to be.
This video is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach and is narrated by Alia Shawkat.
Learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope at http://webbtelescope.org/

published:17 Mar 2016

views:40453

How do you control communicating actors? How do you implement an SSH server in a truly functional style? How do you teach middle school students event-driven programming? How are these questions related?
This talk will present a tour through Racket's world of thinking in a purely functional manner. It will start with the Universe library, which we use for reaching middle school students, and it will end with a sketch of the Network Calculus dialect, a natural research outgrowth of the Universe.
Racket's Universe library is the foundation of the long-running Bootstrap and ProgramByDesign K-12 outreach projects. The library's exports make algebra come alive. With big-bang, a middle-school student's "hello world" program simulates a rocket lift-off:
(define (lift-off t)
(place-image rocket middle (- height t) background))
(define rocket .. some image ..)
(define background .. some image ..)
(define height (image-height background))
(define middle (/ (image-width background) 2))
;; run program run
(animate lift-off)
More generally, middle school students can formulate interactive, graphical programs---animations, video games, or simple editors---with algebra. Even evaluating these programs uses nothing but algebraic calculations.
The key to this approach is big-bang, which turns algebraic functions on numbers, booleans, images, and strings into event handlers and rendering functions:
(big-bang height
[to-draw lift-off]
[on-tick sub1]
[stop-when zero?])
A big-bang expression describes a world with functions. Precisely put, it associates functions with certain events. Each function consumes the state of the world and possibly some additional information; it returns the next state of the world or computes a property of the world.
Naturally a world is not enough. Therefore Universe also exports a universe form, with which students can create a network of worlds. For example, they can turn the above animation into a remote-controlled one with just three lines of code added to the above:
[register LOCALHOST]
[on-key (lambda (w key) (make-package w 'reset))]
[on-receive (lambda (s m) height)]
A beginning student formulates the "universe" server as a top-level function instead of a lambda, but it still doesn't take more than 10 lines.
Even though worlds connected in a universe still consist of algebraic descriptions of state, state transformation, and communication, network connectivity turns the resulting systems into a non-deterministic one. Our college freshmen routinely study and use this material to construct distributed programs at the end of their first semester.
Finally, over the past couple of years, Universe programming has given rise to the idea of folding the network into the programming language. Here a network consists of communicating actors---each of which may be a network itself---and a coordinating messaging board on which actors publish messages and subscribe to them.
The Network Calculus language (NC) is a dialect of Racket that supports programming with these trees of actors. As such, programming in NC resembles programming with actors in Akka or Erlang/OMP, but it also integrates well-known patterns as a language construct.
[[ Attendees are encouraged to install Racket before the presentation and to participate in a small interactive demo midway through the presentation (via pre-packaged code). ]]
Matthias Felleisen
I launched the PLT research group at Rice University that created Racket and has maintained it for the past 20 years.

published:27 Sep 2015

views:4342

Our time to share with the homeless of Oklahoma City for the month with my church family and friends.

History

In 1946, American theoretical astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer was the first to conceive the idea of a telescope in outer space, a decade before the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik 1.

Spitzer's proposal called for a large telescope that would not be hindered by Earth's atmosphere. After lobbying in the 1960s and 70s for such a system to be built, Spitzer's vision ultimately materialized into the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched on April 24, 1990 by the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31).

Composition of the Universe - SPS Outreach

This demonstration briefly explains the history of the universe using jars and colored beads. The jars represent matter/objects and the beads represent the composition of those objects.
See the full activity at https://www.spsnational.org/programs/outreach/composition-universe

0:41

Fabric of the Universe Part 2 - SPS Outreach

Fabric of the Universe Part 2 - SPS Outreach

Fabric of the Universe Part 2 - SPS Outreach

explore solar system formation, tides, and planetary rings using a spandex sheet.
See the full activity at https://www.spsnational.org/programs/outreach/fabric-universe-part-2

Outreach 5: How to get "WOW!" (When not showing Saturn)

Wondering how to get people as excited about astronomy as you are? We'll show you how! For more tips and activities, go to http://astrosociety.org/SharingTheUniverse/wow.html

1:11:37

Kendrick Smith Public Lecture: Cosmology in the 21st Century

Kendrick Smith Public Lecture: Cosmology in the 21st Century

Kendrick Smith Public Lecture: Cosmology in the 21st Century

Cosmologist KendrickSmith gives a guided tour through the expanding universe, from the big bang to our present-day understanding of dark matter and other cosmic phenomena, during his Feb. 4, 2015 public lecture at Perimeter Institute.
Hit the subscribe button to see more PI lectures, interviews, animations, and more.
Find out about upcoming Perimeter Institute Public Lectures: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/general-public/public-lecture-series
Join the conversation:
www.twitter.com/perimeter
www.facebook.com/pi_outreach

8:43

The Great Photon Escape

The Great Photon Escape

The Great Photon Escape

In a flash known as the Big Bang, our universe was born. Yet for hundreds of thousands of years, light from the Big Bang was scattered and trapped in a dense fog. Eventually, though, that light made its “great escape” and the universe was plunged into total darkness. These cosmic “Dark Ages” lasted for millions of years until the first stars and galaxies burst to life and began to illuminate the universe. However, no one knows just when this happened or what the earliest stars and galaxies were really like, because we’ve never seen them.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, currently under construction and due to launch in 2018, will use its powerful infrared vision to spy the very first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe and help us understand how today’s universe came to be.
This video is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach and is narrated by Alia Shawkat.
Learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope at http://webbtelescope.org/

43:06

"big-bang: the world, universe, and network in the programming language" by Matthias Felleisen

"big-bang: the world, universe, and network in the programming language" by Matthias Felleisen

"big-bang: the world, universe, and network in the programming language" by Matthias Felleisen

How do you control communicating actors? How do you implement an SSH server in a truly functional style? How do you teach middle school students event-driven programming? How are these questions related?
This talk will present a tour through Racket's world of thinking in a purely functional manner. It will start with the Universe library, which we use for reaching middle school students, and it will end with a sketch of the Network Calculus dialect, a natural research outgrowth of the Universe.
Racket's Universe library is the foundation of the long-running Bootstrap and ProgramByDesign K-12 outreach projects. The library's exports make algebra come alive. With big-bang, a middle-school student's "hello world" program simulates a rocket lift-off:
(define (lift-off t)
(place-image rocket middle (- height t) background))
(define rocket .. some image ..)
(define background .. some image ..)
(define height (image-height background))
(define middle (/ (image-width background) 2))
;; run program run
(animate lift-off)
More generally, middle school students can formulate interactive, graphical programs---animations, video games, or simple editors---with algebra. Even evaluating these programs uses nothing but algebraic calculations.
The key to this approach is big-bang, which turns algebraic functions on numbers, booleans, images, and strings into event handlers and rendering functions:
(big-bang height
[to-draw lift-off]
[on-tick sub1]
[stop-when zero?])
A big-bang expression describes a world with functions. Precisely put, it associates functions with certain events. Each function consumes the state of the world and possibly some additional information; it returns the next state of the world or computes a property of the world.
Naturally a world is not enough. Therefore Universe also exports a universe form, with which students can create a network of worlds. For example, they can turn the above animation into a remote-controlled one with just three lines of code added to the above:
[register LOCALHOST]
[on-key (lambda (w key) (make-package w 'reset))]
[on-receive (lambda (s m) height)]
A beginning student formulates the "universe" server as a top-level function instead of a lambda, but it still doesn't take more than 10 lines.
Even though worlds connected in a universe still consist of algebraic descriptions of state, state transformation, and communication, network connectivity turns the resulting systems into a non-deterministic one. Our college freshmen routinely study and use this material to construct distributed programs at the end of their first semester.
Finally, over the past couple of years, Universe programming has given rise to the idea of folding the network into the programming language. Here a network consists of communicating actors---each of which may be a network itself---and a coordinating messaging board on which actors publish messages and subscribe to them.
The Network Calculus language (NC) is a dialect of Racket that supports programming with these trees of actors. As such, programming in NC resembles programming with actors in Akka or Erlang/OMP, but it also integrates well-known patterns as a language construct.
[[ Attendees are encouraged to install Racket before the presentation and to participate in a small interactive demo midway through the presentation (via pre-packaged code). ]]
Matthias Felleisen
I launched the PLT research group at Rice University that created Racket and has maintained it for the past 20 years.

11:21

Sidewalk Outreach: Center of the Universe

Sidewalk Outreach: Center of the Universe

Sidewalk Outreach: Center of the Universe

Our time to share with the homeless of Oklahoma City for the month with my church family and friends.

Visualizing the brain as a universe of synapses

You are looking a visual reconstruction (from array-tomography data) of synapses in the mouse somatosensory cortex, the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsive to sensation. Neurons are depicted in green; multicolored dots represent separate synapses. For more information, visit our news story: http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2010/november/neuron-imaging.html

The Universe Beyond Visible Light - with Jen Gupta

Astrophysicist Jen Gupta explores views of the Universe at wavelengths other than visible light, from familiar objects like our Sun to weird and wonderful distant quasars.
Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe
Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/tpjcyY6FvtA
Jen Gupta is an astrophysicist who loves to talk about how awesome space is with anyone who will listen. She is currently based in the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth where she is the SEPnet/OgdenPhysics OutreachOfficer. She also occasionally works at the Winchester Science Centre as a Planetarium Presenter. In her spare time she help to organise the WinchesterScience Festival.
Jen did her PhD at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester under the supervision of ProfessorIan Browne. Her research looked at active galactic nuclei (AGN) – galaxies that are emitting far more energy from their centres than can be accounted for by their stars. In particular she focused on a subset of AGN called blazars.
This talk was filmed in the Royal Institution on 14 April 2016.
The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science
and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution
and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/
Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy
Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

Outreach

Are Astrophotos a means to do outreach? Try showing novices The Universe in real time in 3D! The reactions speak for themselves. More videos will be coming this next year! Join the effort to instill a sense of wonder in those who have no idea what is up there. Show them the night sky with amazing and immersive depth perception!

Composition of the Universe - SPS Outreach

This demonstration briefly explains the history of the universe using jars and colored beads. The jars represent matter/objects and the beads represent the composition of those objects.
See the full activity at https://www.spsnational.org/programs/outreach/composition-universe

published: 26 Jun 2017

Fabric of the Universe Part 2 - SPS Outreach

explore solar system formation, tides, and planetary rings using a spandex sheet.
See the full activity at https://www.spsnational.org/programs/outreach/fabric-universe-part-2

Outreach 5: How to get "WOW!" (When not showing Saturn)

Wondering how to get people as excited about astronomy as you are? We'll show you how! For more tips and activities, go to http://astrosociety.org/SharingTheUniverse/wow.html

published: 20 Feb 2010

Kendrick Smith Public Lecture: Cosmology in the 21st Century

Cosmologist KendrickSmith gives a guided tour through the expanding universe, from the big bang to our present-day understanding of dark matter and other cosmic phenomena, during his Feb. 4, 2015 public lecture at Perimeter Institute.
Hit the subscribe button to see more PI lectures, interviews, animations, and more.
Find out about upcoming Perimeter Institute Public Lectures: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/general-public/public-lecture-series
Join the conversation:
www.twitter.com/perimeter
www.facebook.com/pi_outreach

published: 06 Feb 2015

The Great Photon Escape

In a flash known as the Big Bang, our universe was born. Yet for hundreds of thousands of years, light from the Big Bang was scattered and trapped in a dense fog. Eventually, though, that light made its “great escape” and the universe was plunged into total darkness. These cosmic “Dark Ages” lasted for millions of years until the first stars and galaxies burst to life and began to illuminate the universe. However, no one knows just when this happened or what the earliest stars and galaxies were really like, because we’ve never seen them.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, currently under construction and due to launch in 2018, will use its powerful infrared vision to spy the very first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe and help us understand how today’s...

published: 17 Mar 2016

"big-bang: the world, universe, and network in the programming language" by Matthias Felleisen

How do you control communicating actors? How do you implement an SSH server in a truly functional style? How do you teach middle school students event-driven programming? How are these questions related?
This talk will present a tour through Racket's world of thinking in a purely functional manner. It will start with the Universe library, which we use for reaching middle school students, and it will end with a sketch of the Network Calculus dialect, a natural research outgrowth of the Universe.
Racket's Universe library is the foundation of the long-running Bootstrap and ProgramByDesign K-12 outreach projects. The library's exports make algebra come alive. With big-bang, a middle-school student's "hello world" program simulates a rocket lift-off:
(define (lift-off t)
(place-image ...

published: 27 Sep 2015

Sidewalk Outreach: Center of the Universe

Our time to share with the homeless of Oklahoma City for the month with my church family and friends.

Visualizing the brain as a universe of synapses

You are looking a visual reconstruction (from array-tomography data) of synapses in the mouse somatosensory cortex, the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsive to sensation. Neurons are depicted in green; multicolored dots represent separate synapses. For more information, visit our news story: http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2010/november/neuron-imaging.html

CHOICES: The "coolest engineering outreach program in the known universe"

Lehigh University's CHOICES program allows middle school girls to participate in a variety of fun engineering and science experiments designed to foster an interest in the future pursuit of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Visithttp://www.lehigh.edu/choices to learn more.
Project mentors from our campus chapter of the Society of Women Engineers serve as the perfect role models for middle-school participants in both annual CHOICES events -- the one-day programs in the Spring and weeklong day camps in the Summer -- proving that engineering is fun, challenging, and accessible to everyone.
The event is sponsored by Lehigh's P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science along with our chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, with support from partner organizations...

Outreach

Are Astrophotos a means to do outreach? Try showing novices The Universe in real time in 3D! The reactions speak for themselves. More videos will be coming this next year! Join the effort to instill a sense of wonder in those who have no idea what is up there. Show them the night sky with amazing and immersive depth perception!

Composition of the Universe - SPS Outreach

This demonstration briefly explains the history of the universe using jars and colored beads. The jars represent matter/objects and the beads represent the comp...

This demonstration briefly explains the history of the universe using jars and colored beads. The jars represent matter/objects and the beads represent the composition of those objects.
See the full activity at https://www.spsnational.org/programs/outreach/composition-universe

This demonstration briefly explains the history of the universe using jars and colored beads. The jars represent matter/objects and the beads represent the composition of those objects.
See the full activity at https://www.spsnational.org/programs/outreach/composition-universe

Kendrick Smith Public Lecture: Cosmology in the 21st Century

Cosmologist KendrickSmith gives a guided tour through the expanding universe, from the big bang to our present-day understanding of dark matter and other cosmi...

Cosmologist KendrickSmith gives a guided tour through the expanding universe, from the big bang to our present-day understanding of dark matter and other cosmic phenomena, during his Feb. 4, 2015 public lecture at Perimeter Institute.
Hit the subscribe button to see more PI lectures, interviews, animations, and more.
Find out about upcoming Perimeter Institute Public Lectures: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/general-public/public-lecture-series
Join the conversation:
www.twitter.com/perimeter
www.facebook.com/pi_outreach

Cosmologist KendrickSmith gives a guided tour through the expanding universe, from the big bang to our present-day understanding of dark matter and other cosmic phenomena, during his Feb. 4, 2015 public lecture at Perimeter Institute.
Hit the subscribe button to see more PI lectures, interviews, animations, and more.
Find out about upcoming Perimeter Institute Public Lectures: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/general-public/public-lecture-series
Join the conversation:
www.twitter.com/perimeter
www.facebook.com/pi_outreach

The Great Photon Escape

In a flash known as the Big Bang, our universe was born. Yet for hundreds of thousands of years, light from the Big Bang was scattered and trapped in a dense fo...

In a flash known as the Big Bang, our universe was born. Yet for hundreds of thousands of years, light from the Big Bang was scattered and trapped in a dense fog. Eventually, though, that light made its “great escape” and the universe was plunged into total darkness. These cosmic “Dark Ages” lasted for millions of years until the first stars and galaxies burst to life and began to illuminate the universe. However, no one knows just when this happened or what the earliest stars and galaxies were really like, because we’ve never seen them.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, currently under construction and due to launch in 2018, will use its powerful infrared vision to spy the very first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe and help us understand how today’s universe came to be.
This video is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach and is narrated by Alia Shawkat.
Learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope at http://webbtelescope.org/

In a flash known as the Big Bang, our universe was born. Yet for hundreds of thousands of years, light from the Big Bang was scattered and trapped in a dense fog. Eventually, though, that light made its “great escape” and the universe was plunged into total darkness. These cosmic “Dark Ages” lasted for millions of years until the first stars and galaxies burst to life and began to illuminate the universe. However, no one knows just when this happened or what the earliest stars and galaxies were really like, because we’ve never seen them.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, currently under construction and due to launch in 2018, will use its powerful infrared vision to spy the very first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe and help us understand how today’s universe came to be.
This video is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach and is narrated by Alia Shawkat.
Learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope at http://webbtelescope.org/

published:17 Mar 2016

views:40453

back

"big-bang: the world, universe, and network in the programming language" by Matthias Felleisen

How do you control communicating actors? How do you implement an SSH server in a truly functional style? How do you teach middle school students event-driven pr...

How do you control communicating actors? How do you implement an SSH server in a truly functional style? How do you teach middle school students event-driven programming? How are these questions related?
This talk will present a tour through Racket's world of thinking in a purely functional manner. It will start with the Universe library, which we use for reaching middle school students, and it will end with a sketch of the Network Calculus dialect, a natural research outgrowth of the Universe.
Racket's Universe library is the foundation of the long-running Bootstrap and ProgramByDesign K-12 outreach projects. The library's exports make algebra come alive. With big-bang, a middle-school student's "hello world" program simulates a rocket lift-off:
(define (lift-off t)
(place-image rocket middle (- height t) background))
(define rocket .. some image ..)
(define background .. some image ..)
(define height (image-height background))
(define middle (/ (image-width background) 2))
;; run program run
(animate lift-off)
More generally, middle school students can formulate interactive, graphical programs---animations, video games, or simple editors---with algebra. Even evaluating these programs uses nothing but algebraic calculations.
The key to this approach is big-bang, which turns algebraic functions on numbers, booleans, images, and strings into event handlers and rendering functions:
(big-bang height
[to-draw lift-off]
[on-tick sub1]
[stop-when zero?])
A big-bang expression describes a world with functions. Precisely put, it associates functions with certain events. Each function consumes the state of the world and possibly some additional information; it returns the next state of the world or computes a property of the world.
Naturally a world is not enough. Therefore Universe also exports a universe form, with which students can create a network of worlds. For example, they can turn the above animation into a remote-controlled one with just three lines of code added to the above:
[register LOCALHOST]
[on-key (lambda (w key) (make-package w 'reset))]
[on-receive (lambda (s m) height)]
A beginning student formulates the "universe" server as a top-level function instead of a lambda, but it still doesn't take more than 10 lines.
Even though worlds connected in a universe still consist of algebraic descriptions of state, state transformation, and communication, network connectivity turns the resulting systems into a non-deterministic one. Our college freshmen routinely study and use this material to construct distributed programs at the end of their first semester.
Finally, over the past couple of years, Universe programming has given rise to the idea of folding the network into the programming language. Here a network consists of communicating actors---each of which may be a network itself---and a coordinating messaging board on which actors publish messages and subscribe to them.
The Network Calculus language (NC) is a dialect of Racket that supports programming with these trees of actors. As such, programming in NC resembles programming with actors in Akka or Erlang/OMP, but it also integrates well-known patterns as a language construct.
[[ Attendees are encouraged to install Racket before the presentation and to participate in a small interactive demo midway through the presentation (via pre-packaged code). ]]
Matthias Felleisen
I launched the PLT research group at Rice University that created Racket and has maintained it for the past 20 years.

How do you control communicating actors? How do you implement an SSH server in a truly functional style? How do you teach middle school students event-driven programming? How are these questions related?
This talk will present a tour through Racket's world of thinking in a purely functional manner. It will start with the Universe library, which we use for reaching middle school students, and it will end with a sketch of the Network Calculus dialect, a natural research outgrowth of the Universe.
Racket's Universe library is the foundation of the long-running Bootstrap and ProgramByDesign K-12 outreach projects. The library's exports make algebra come alive. With big-bang, a middle-school student's "hello world" program simulates a rocket lift-off:
(define (lift-off t)
(place-image rocket middle (- height t) background))
(define rocket .. some image ..)
(define background .. some image ..)
(define height (image-height background))
(define middle (/ (image-width background) 2))
;; run program run
(animate lift-off)
More generally, middle school students can formulate interactive, graphical programs---animations, video games, or simple editors---with algebra. Even evaluating these programs uses nothing but algebraic calculations.
The key to this approach is big-bang, which turns algebraic functions on numbers, booleans, images, and strings into event handlers and rendering functions:
(big-bang height
[to-draw lift-off]
[on-tick sub1]
[stop-when zero?])
A big-bang expression describes a world with functions. Precisely put, it associates functions with certain events. Each function consumes the state of the world and possibly some additional information; it returns the next state of the world or computes a property of the world.
Naturally a world is not enough. Therefore Universe also exports a universe form, with which students can create a network of worlds. For example, they can turn the above animation into a remote-controlled one with just three lines of code added to the above:
[register LOCALHOST]
[on-key (lambda (w key) (make-package w 'reset))]
[on-receive (lambda (s m) height)]
A beginning student formulates the "universe" server as a top-level function instead of a lambda, but it still doesn't take more than 10 lines.
Even though worlds connected in a universe still consist of algebraic descriptions of state, state transformation, and communication, network connectivity turns the resulting systems into a non-deterministic one. Our college freshmen routinely study and use this material to construct distributed programs at the end of their first semester.
Finally, over the past couple of years, Universe programming has given rise to the idea of folding the network into the programming language. Here a network consists of communicating actors---each of which may be a network itself---and a coordinating messaging board on which actors publish messages and subscribe to them.
The Network Calculus language (NC) is a dialect of Racket that supports programming with these trees of actors. As such, programming in NC resembles programming with actors in Akka or Erlang/OMP, but it also integrates well-known patterns as a language construct.
[[ Attendees are encouraged to install Racket before the presentation and to participate in a small interactive demo midway through the presentation (via pre-packaged code). ]]
Matthias Felleisen
I launched the PLT research group at Rice University that created Racket and has maintained it for the past 20 years.

Visualizing the brain as a universe of synapses

You are looking a visual reconstruction (from array-tomography data) of synapses in the mouse somatosensory cortex, the part of the cerebral cortex that is resp...

You are looking a visual reconstruction (from array-tomography data) of synapses in the mouse somatosensory cortex, the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsive to sensation. Neurons are depicted in green; multicolored dots represent separate synapses. For more information, visit our news story: http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2010/november/neuron-imaging.html

You are looking a visual reconstruction (from array-tomography data) of synapses in the mouse somatosensory cortex, the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsive to sensation. Neurons are depicted in green; multicolored dots represent separate synapses. For more information, visit our news story: http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2010/november/neuron-imaging.html

The Universe Beyond Visible Light - with Jen Gupta

Astrophysicist Jen Gupta explores views of the Universe at wavelengths other than visible light, from familiar objects like our Sun to weird and wonderful dista...

Astrophysicist Jen Gupta explores views of the Universe at wavelengths other than visible light, from familiar objects like our Sun to weird and wonderful distant quasars.
Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe
Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/tpjcyY6FvtA
Jen Gupta is an astrophysicist who loves to talk about how awesome space is with anyone who will listen. She is currently based in the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth where she is the SEPnet/OgdenPhysics OutreachOfficer. She also occasionally works at the Winchester Science Centre as a Planetarium Presenter. In her spare time she help to organise the WinchesterScience Festival.
Jen did her PhD at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester under the supervision of ProfessorIan Browne. Her research looked at active galactic nuclei (AGN) – galaxies that are emitting far more energy from their centres than can be accounted for by their stars. In particular she focused on a subset of AGN called blazars.
This talk was filmed in the Royal Institution on 14 April 2016.
The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science
and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution
and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/
Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy
Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

Astrophysicist Jen Gupta explores views of the Universe at wavelengths other than visible light, from familiar objects like our Sun to weird and wonderful distant quasars.
Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe
Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/tpjcyY6FvtA
Jen Gupta is an astrophysicist who loves to talk about how awesome space is with anyone who will listen. She is currently based in the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth where she is the SEPnet/OgdenPhysics OutreachOfficer. She also occasionally works at the Winchester Science Centre as a Planetarium Presenter. In her spare time she help to organise the WinchesterScience Festival.
Jen did her PhD at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester under the supervision of ProfessorIan Browne. Her research looked at active galactic nuclei (AGN) – galaxies that are emitting far more energy from their centres than can be accounted for by their stars. In particular she focused on a subset of AGN called blazars.
This talk was filmed in the Royal Institution on 14 April 2016.
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Outreach

Are Astrophotos a means to do outreach? Try showing novices The Universe in real time in 3D! The reactions speak for themselves. More videos will be coming this...

Are Astrophotos a means to do outreach? Try showing novices The Universe in real time in 3D! The reactions speak for themselves. More videos will be coming this next year! Join the effort to instill a sense of wonder in those who have no idea what is up there. Show them the night sky with amazing and immersive depth perception!

Are Astrophotos a means to do outreach? Try showing novices The Universe in real time in 3D! The reactions speak for themselves. More videos will be coming this next year! Join the effort to instill a sense of wonder in those who have no idea what is up there. Show them the night sky with amazing and immersive depth perception!

Kendrick Smith Public Lecture: Cosmology in the 21st Century

Cosmologist KendrickSmith gives a guided tour through the expanding universe, from the big bang to our present-day understanding of dark matter and other cosmic phenomena, during his Feb. 4, 2015 public lecture at Perimeter Institute.
Hit the subscribe button to see more PI lectures, interviews, animations, and more.
Find out about upcoming Perimeter Institute Public Lectures: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/general-public/public-lecture-series
Join the conversation:
www.twitter.com/perimeter
www.facebook.com/pi_outreach

"big-bang: the world, universe, and network in the programming language" by Matthias Felleisen

How do you control communicating actors? How do you implement an SSH server in a truly functional style? How do you teach middle school students event-driven programming? How are these questions related?
This talk will present a tour through Racket's world of thinking in a purely functional manner. It will start with the Universe library, which we use for reaching middle school students, and it will end with a sketch of the Network Calculus dialect, a natural research outgrowth of the Universe.
Racket's Universe library is the foundation of the long-running Bootstrap and ProgramByDesign K-12 outreach projects. The library's exports make algebra come alive. With big-bang, a middle-school student's "hello world" program simulates a rocket lift-off:
(define (lift-off t)
(place-image ...

Fay Dowker Public Lecture - Spacetime Atoms and the Unity of Physics (Perimeter Public Lecture)

Fay Dowker speaks at a Perimeter InstitutePublic Lecture on November 2, 2011.
Black holes are hot! This discovery made by Stephen Hawking ties together gravity, spacetime, quantum matter, and thermal systems into the beautiful and exciting science of "Black Hole Thermodynamics". Its beauty lies in the powerful way it speaks of the unity of physics. The excitement arises because it tells us that there is something lacking in our understanding of spacetime and, at the same time, gives us a major clue as to what the missing ingredient should be. Theoretical physicists at Perimeter Institute and elsewhere are pioneering a proposal, known as Causal SetTheory, for the structure held by these most fundamental atoms of spacetime. In this talk, Professor Dowker describes black hole thermodyna...

Space games set the stage for exploring the unknown, massive battles, intricate constructions, along with living and surviving in a vast hostile environment! Welcome to my 25 Upcoming PC Space Games in 2018 & 2019 list! Now, Space is a bit of a nebulous genre when it comes to gaming but it isn't just about a game set in space. It has to have space ingrained into the essence of the theme and gameplay, and the games listed here are thoroughly spacey! No one can promise that they will all turn out good but they're all interesting and have potential in their own rights, so let's get started!
►More lists & upcoming games◄
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYVqUDxY6COh7bkuJoBb1koNRX7mAX2yp
►QUESTIONS OF THE DAY◄
Which ones are you most excited about?
What do you like about space games mos...

published: 25 Dec 2017

Conversations | More Than Outreach | What Makes an Institution Public?

Hot and Energetic Universe - HDTV 16:9 Flat Version

HDTV16:9Version of the planetarium Show The Hot and EnergeticUniverseDownload the fulldome version (planearium use only) for free from ESO's website (4K,2K,1K) :
http://www.eso.org/public/videos/ahead-xray/
The planetarium documentary “The Hot and Energetic Universe” presents with the use of Immersive Visualizations and real images the achievements of the modern astronomy, the most advanced terrestrial and orbital observatories, the basic principles electromagnetic radiation and the natural phenomena related to the High Energy Astrophysics.
High Energy Astrophysics plays a key role in understanding the universe. These radiations reveal the processes in the hot and violent Universe.
High Energy Astrophysics probes hot gas in clusters of galaxies, which are the most massive objects i...

published: 16 Aug 2016

The Children of Ash: Cosmology and the Viking Universe

ProfessorNeil Price delivers the first of three lectures, September 25, 2012, focusing on the fundamental role that narrative, storytelling and dramatisation played in the mindset of the Viking Age (8th-11th centuries), occupying a crucial place not only in the cycles of life but particularly in the ritual responses to dying and the dead.

published: 11 Dec 2012

Learning Space Episode 97: Life in the Universe, the Summer Camp

LearningSpace is a weekly Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach, and other ways to share science.
This week, we'll discuss activities that explore astrobiology for middle school kids. This will also be Nicole's last episode as co-host!
http://cosmoquest.org/x/educatorszone/learning-space
Activities discussed:
SeeingThrough Alien Eyes: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/iyacosmos/AlienEyes.pdf
Invent an Alien: http://www.dennisschatz.org/activities/Invent%20An%20Alien.pdf
Starlab Planetarium: http://starlab.com/
Make a Constellation: Link at http://www.astro.virginia.edu/dsbk/resources.phpEyes on the Universe: http://stemideas.org/outreach-projects/mosaic-minds-on-science-activities-in-the-community/mosaic-lesson-plans/eyes-on-the-universe-looking-into-th...

published: 17 Jun 2015

Life in the Universe - Burke Baker Planetarium at HMNS

Tour The CosmosIn Search OfLife!
2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the first experiment to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. In 1960, astronomer Frank Drake used a radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia to listen to two nearby stars. He heard nothing interesting, but the idea of searching for life beyond Earth was born.
Fifty years of searching for signals and occasional broadcasting of messages has not detected any transmissions that require intelligent alien authors. Either intelligent life is much more rare or short-lived than we expected or we are not looking in the right places with the right tools.
Life in the Universe takes a fresh look at this fifty-year-old question, looking forward from the big bang, in search of those special places that might harbor life, in...

published: 07 Mar 2013

Quasars - From the Milky Way to the Edge of the Universe | Curtin University

Presented by ProfessorRon Ekers, this inspiring presentation delves into the discovery of the first quasar, 3C273 on March 16th1963. A joint effort between Australia and the USA, which led to the discovery of Quasars and fundamentally shifted our thinking about the Universe. This is a fascinating story of scientific debate, monumental leaps in knowledge, and global cooperation.
Professor Ekers speaks about what we've learned over the past 50 years of peering into space and where we might go next with telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array.
About Professor Ekers:
Professor Ekers has worked with some of the world's most renowned astronomers at some of the top University's and Observatories including Cal Tech and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in New Mexico.
He was el...

published: 17 Apr 2013

Survey of Astronomy: Lecture 25 - The Universe / Galaxies

What is science? Is the Moon made of green cheese? What is a star made of? How hot is the sun? What's the difference between a galactic cluster and a globular cluster? How did the Solar System form? How did the Universe form? Will it last forever? This course tries to answer these questions and many more, providing a comprehensive overview of the objects and events beyond the Earth's atmosphere and the Earth itself, as a planetary member of the Solar System. We'll explore the Sun, the planets, the many other objects found in the Solar System, stars and galaxies, dark matter, dark energy, the fate of the universe, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Learn more about Missouri State iCourses at http://outreach.missouristate.edu/icourses.htm

published: 11 Feb 2013

Galaxy and Star formation outreach talk with DR's Yildiz and Topal

Galaxy and Star formation outreach talk with DR's Yildiz and Topal
This was the second STEM outreach talk for Iraq and Turkey.
The topic of this talk is on the formation of Galaxies and Stars.
For Event 1 with Dr Robet Zubrin and Dr Philip T Metzger go to: https://youtu.be/9vQeusQQXAU
The focus of this event was on the formation of Galaxies with Selcuk Topal from Oxford University and Star formation with Dr Umut Yildiz from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The second event in a series of ongoing conferences all over the Middle East, and soon to include some countries within Europe. Special thanks goes to Ozge Sahin, who's was pinnacle in DSEAs involvement with this event.
The formation of Galaxies with Selcuk Topal from Oxford University
https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/t...

published: 10 May 2015

The Universe: Big and Small by Ashoke Sen

URL: https://www.icts.res.in/outreach/kaapi-with-kuriosity
Kaapi with Kuriosity is a monthly public lecture series organised by the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), in collaboration with the Jawaharlal NehruPlanetarium and the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bengaluru.
The aim of the talks in this series is to really stimulate the curiosity of the public towards the myriad aspects of science. The setting for these talks will be informal with a lot of scope for open discussions. The scientific background assumed will not be beyond the school level. As such, they are easily accessible to school/college students and working professionals.

The Universe Beyond Visible Light - with Jen Gupta

Astrophysicist Jen Gupta explores views of the Universe at wavelengths other than visible light, from familiar objects like our Sun to weird and wonderful dista...

Astrophysicist Jen Gupta explores views of the Universe at wavelengths other than visible light, from familiar objects like our Sun to weird and wonderful distant quasars.
Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe
Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/tpjcyY6FvtA
Jen Gupta is an astrophysicist who loves to talk about how awesome space is with anyone who will listen. She is currently based in the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth where she is the SEPnet/OgdenPhysics OutreachOfficer. She also occasionally works at the Winchester Science Centre as a Planetarium Presenter. In her spare time she help to organise the WinchesterScience Festival.
Jen did her PhD at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester under the supervision of ProfessorIan Browne. Her research looked at active galactic nuclei (AGN) – galaxies that are emitting far more energy from their centres than can be accounted for by their stars. In particular she focused on a subset of AGN called blazars.
This talk was filmed in the Royal Institution on 14 April 2016.
The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science
and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution
and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/
Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy
Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

Astrophysicist Jen Gupta explores views of the Universe at wavelengths other than visible light, from familiar objects like our Sun to weird and wonderful distant quasars.
Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe
Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/tpjcyY6FvtA
Jen Gupta is an astrophysicist who loves to talk about how awesome space is with anyone who will listen. She is currently based in the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth where she is the SEPnet/OgdenPhysics OutreachOfficer. She also occasionally works at the Winchester Science Centre as a Planetarium Presenter. In her spare time she help to organise the WinchesterScience Festival.
Jen did her PhD at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester under the supervision of ProfessorIan Browne. Her research looked at active galactic nuclei (AGN) – galaxies that are emitting far more energy from their centres than can be accounted for by their stars. In particular she focused on a subset of AGN called blazars.
This talk was filmed in the Royal Institution on 14 April 2016.
The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science
and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution
and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/
Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy
Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter

Kendrick Smith Public Lecture: Cosmology in the 21st Century

Cosmologist KendrickSmith gives a guided tour through the expanding universe, from the big bang to our present-day understanding of dark matter and other cosmi...

Cosmologist KendrickSmith gives a guided tour through the expanding universe, from the big bang to our present-day understanding of dark matter and other cosmic phenomena, during his Feb. 4, 2015 public lecture at Perimeter Institute.
Hit the subscribe button to see more PI lectures, interviews, animations, and more.
Find out about upcoming Perimeter Institute Public Lectures: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/general-public/public-lecture-series
Join the conversation:
www.twitter.com/perimeter
www.facebook.com/pi_outreach

Cosmologist KendrickSmith gives a guided tour through the expanding universe, from the big bang to our present-day understanding of dark matter and other cosmic phenomena, during his Feb. 4, 2015 public lecture at Perimeter Institute.
Hit the subscribe button to see more PI lectures, interviews, animations, and more.
Find out about upcoming Perimeter Institute Public Lectures: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/general-public/public-lecture-series
Join the conversation:
www.twitter.com/perimeter
www.facebook.com/pi_outreach

"big-bang: the world, universe, and network in the programming language" by Matthias Felleisen

How do you control communicating actors? How do you implement an SSH server in a truly functional style? How do you teach middle school students event-driven pr...

How do you control communicating actors? How do you implement an SSH server in a truly functional style? How do you teach middle school students event-driven programming? How are these questions related?
This talk will present a tour through Racket's world of thinking in a purely functional manner. It will start with the Universe library, which we use for reaching middle school students, and it will end with a sketch of the Network Calculus dialect, a natural research outgrowth of the Universe.
Racket's Universe library is the foundation of the long-running Bootstrap and ProgramByDesign K-12 outreach projects. The library's exports make algebra come alive. With big-bang, a middle-school student's "hello world" program simulates a rocket lift-off:
(define (lift-off t)
(place-image rocket middle (- height t) background))
(define rocket .. some image ..)
(define background .. some image ..)
(define height (image-height background))
(define middle (/ (image-width background) 2))
;; run program run
(animate lift-off)
More generally, middle school students can formulate interactive, graphical programs---animations, video games, or simple editors---with algebra. Even evaluating these programs uses nothing but algebraic calculations.
The key to this approach is big-bang, which turns algebraic functions on numbers, booleans, images, and strings into event handlers and rendering functions:
(big-bang height
[to-draw lift-off]
[on-tick sub1]
[stop-when zero?])
A big-bang expression describes a world with functions. Precisely put, it associates functions with certain events. Each function consumes the state of the world and possibly some additional information; it returns the next state of the world or computes a property of the world.
Naturally a world is not enough. Therefore Universe also exports a universe form, with which students can create a network of worlds. For example, they can turn the above animation into a remote-controlled one with just three lines of code added to the above:
[register LOCALHOST]
[on-key (lambda (w key) (make-package w 'reset))]
[on-receive (lambda (s m) height)]
A beginning student formulates the "universe" server as a top-level function instead of a lambda, but it still doesn't take more than 10 lines.
Even though worlds connected in a universe still consist of algebraic descriptions of state, state transformation, and communication, network connectivity turns the resulting systems into a non-deterministic one. Our college freshmen routinely study and use this material to construct distributed programs at the end of their first semester.
Finally, over the past couple of years, Universe programming has given rise to the idea of folding the network into the programming language. Here a network consists of communicating actors---each of which may be a network itself---and a coordinating messaging board on which actors publish messages and subscribe to them.
The Network Calculus language (NC) is a dialect of Racket that supports programming with these trees of actors. As such, programming in NC resembles programming with actors in Akka or Erlang/OMP, but it also integrates well-known patterns as a language construct.
[[ Attendees are encouraged to install Racket before the presentation and to participate in a small interactive demo midway through the presentation (via pre-packaged code). ]]
Matthias Felleisen
I launched the PLT research group at Rice University that created Racket and has maintained it for the past 20 years.

How do you control communicating actors? How do you implement an SSH server in a truly functional style? How do you teach middle school students event-driven programming? How are these questions related?
This talk will present a tour through Racket's world of thinking in a purely functional manner. It will start with the Universe library, which we use for reaching middle school students, and it will end with a sketch of the Network Calculus dialect, a natural research outgrowth of the Universe.
Racket's Universe library is the foundation of the long-running Bootstrap and ProgramByDesign K-12 outreach projects. The library's exports make algebra come alive. With big-bang, a middle-school student's "hello world" program simulates a rocket lift-off:
(define (lift-off t)
(place-image rocket middle (- height t) background))
(define rocket .. some image ..)
(define background .. some image ..)
(define height (image-height background))
(define middle (/ (image-width background) 2))
;; run program run
(animate lift-off)
More generally, middle school students can formulate interactive, graphical programs---animations, video games, or simple editors---with algebra. Even evaluating these programs uses nothing but algebraic calculations.
The key to this approach is big-bang, which turns algebraic functions on numbers, booleans, images, and strings into event handlers and rendering functions:
(big-bang height
[to-draw lift-off]
[on-tick sub1]
[stop-when zero?])
A big-bang expression describes a world with functions. Precisely put, it associates functions with certain events. Each function consumes the state of the world and possibly some additional information; it returns the next state of the world or computes a property of the world.
Naturally a world is not enough. Therefore Universe also exports a universe form, with which students can create a network of worlds. For example, they can turn the above animation into a remote-controlled one with just three lines of code added to the above:
[register LOCALHOST]
[on-key (lambda (w key) (make-package w 'reset))]
[on-receive (lambda (s m) height)]
A beginning student formulates the "universe" server as a top-level function instead of a lambda, but it still doesn't take more than 10 lines.
Even though worlds connected in a universe still consist of algebraic descriptions of state, state transformation, and communication, network connectivity turns the resulting systems into a non-deterministic one. Our college freshmen routinely study and use this material to construct distributed programs at the end of their first semester.
Finally, over the past couple of years, Universe programming has given rise to the idea of folding the network into the programming language. Here a network consists of communicating actors---each of which may be a network itself---and a coordinating messaging board on which actors publish messages and subscribe to them.
The Network Calculus language (NC) is a dialect of Racket that supports programming with these trees of actors. As such, programming in NC resembles programming with actors in Akka or Erlang/OMP, but it also integrates well-known patterns as a language construct.
[[ Attendees are encouraged to install Racket before the presentation and to participate in a small interactive demo midway through the presentation (via pre-packaged code). ]]
Matthias Felleisen
I launched the PLT research group at Rice University that created Racket and has maintained it for the past 20 years.

Fay Dowker speaks at a Perimeter InstitutePublic Lecture on November 2, 2011.
Black holes are hot! This discovery made by Stephen Hawking ties together gravity, spacetime, quantum matter, and thermal systems into the beautiful and exciting science of "Black Hole Thermodynamics". Its beauty lies in the powerful way it speaks of the unity of physics. The excitement arises because it tells us that there is something lacking in our understanding of spacetime and, at the same time, gives us a major clue as to what the missing ingredient should be. Theoretical physicists at Perimeter Institute and elsewhere are pioneering a proposal, known as Causal SetTheory, for the structure held by these most fundamental atoms of spacetime. In this talk, Professor Dowker describes black hole thermodynamics and argue that it is telling us that spacetime itself is granular or "atomic" at very tiny scales.
More Perimeter Public Lectures can be found at: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/Outreach/Public_Lectures/View_Past_Public_Lectures/

Fay Dowker speaks at a Perimeter InstitutePublic Lecture on November 2, 2011.
Black holes are hot! This discovery made by Stephen Hawking ties together gravity, spacetime, quantum matter, and thermal systems into the beautiful and exciting science of "Black Hole Thermodynamics". Its beauty lies in the powerful way it speaks of the unity of physics. The excitement arises because it tells us that there is something lacking in our understanding of spacetime and, at the same time, gives us a major clue as to what the missing ingredient should be. Theoretical physicists at Perimeter Institute and elsewhere are pioneering a proposal, known as Causal SetTheory, for the structure held by these most fundamental atoms of spacetime. In this talk, Professor Dowker describes black hole thermodynamics and argue that it is telling us that spacetime itself is granular or "atomic" at very tiny scales.
More Perimeter Public Lectures can be found at: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/Outreach/Public_Lectures/View_Past_Public_Lectures/

ProfessorNeil Price delivers the first of three lectures, September 25, 2012, focusing on the fundamental role that narrative, storytelling and dramatisation played in the mindset of the Viking Age (8th-11th centuries), occupying a crucial place not only in the cycles of life but particularly in the ritual responses to dying and the dead.

ProfessorNeil Price delivers the first of three lectures, September 25, 2012, focusing on the fundamental role that narrative, storytelling and dramatisation played in the mindset of the Viking Age (8th-11th centuries), occupying a crucial place not only in the cycles of life but particularly in the ritual responses to dying and the dead.

Learning Space Episode 97: Life in the Universe, the Summer Camp

LearningSpace is a weekly Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach, and other ways to share science.
This week, we'll discuss activities t...

LearningSpace is a weekly Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach, and other ways to share science.
This week, we'll discuss activities that explore astrobiology for middle school kids. This will also be Nicole's last episode as co-host!
http://cosmoquest.org/x/educatorszone/learning-space
Activities discussed:
SeeingThrough Alien Eyes: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/iyacosmos/AlienEyes.pdf
Invent an Alien: http://www.dennisschatz.org/activities/Invent%20An%20Alien.pdf
Starlab Planetarium: http://starlab.com/
Make a Constellation: Link at http://www.astro.virginia.edu/dsbk/resources.phpEyes on the Universe: http://stemideas.org/outreach-projects/mosaic-minds-on-science-activities-in-the-community/mosaic-lesson-plans/eyes-on-the-universe-looking-into-the-past/
Galileoscopes: http://galileoscope.org/
Galileoscopes OpticsGuide: https://www.noao.edu/education/files/Galileoscope-Optics-Guide-1.1.pdf
Building a LunarSettlement: http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/pass/passv07/mssLunarSettlement.pdf
With support from:
Helge Bjorkhaug
Richard Drumm
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LearningSpace

LearningSpace is a weekly Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach, and other ways to share science.
This week, we'll discuss activities that explore astrobiology for middle school kids. This will also be Nicole's last episode as co-host!
http://cosmoquest.org/x/educatorszone/learning-space
Activities discussed:
SeeingThrough Alien Eyes: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/iyacosmos/AlienEyes.pdf
Invent an Alien: http://www.dennisschatz.org/activities/Invent%20An%20Alien.pdf
Starlab Planetarium: http://starlab.com/
Make a Constellation: Link at http://www.astro.virginia.edu/dsbk/resources.phpEyes on the Universe: http://stemideas.org/outreach-projects/mosaic-minds-on-science-activities-in-the-community/mosaic-lesson-plans/eyes-on-the-universe-looking-into-the-past/
Galileoscopes: http://galileoscope.org/
Galileoscopes OpticsGuide: https://www.noao.edu/education/files/Galileoscope-Optics-Guide-1.1.pdf
Building a LunarSettlement: http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/pass/passv07/mssLunarSettlement.pdf
With support from:
Helge Bjorkhaug
Richard Drumm
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LearningSpace

Tour The CosmosIn Search OfLife!
2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the first experiment to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. In 1960, astronomer Frank Drake used a radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia to listen to two nearby stars. He heard nothing interesting, but the idea of searching for life beyond Earth was born.
Fifty years of searching for signals and occasional broadcasting of messages has not detected any transmissions that require intelligent alien authors. Either intelligent life is much more rare or short-lived than we expected or we are not looking in the right places with the right tools.
Life in the Universe takes a fresh look at this fifty-year-old question, looking forward from the big bang, in search of those special places that might harbor life, including all of the planets in our solar system. It's a beautiful scenic tour of our universe through the eyes of astronomers looking for clues about the origin of life and the development of intelligence.
The vistas are breathtaking from stellar birth clouds like the Orion and Trifid Nebulas to the death throes of Eta Carinae and the mysterious surfaces of nearby planets, their moons and rings. Join the search and enjoy the adventure.
Life in the Universe is partially funded though a NASA public outreach grant directed by Dr. George Fox, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston.
Mix and Post Production - Fish-i Studios
School or large group? Call 713-639-4659 to book this show or visit www.hmns.org.
Invite the Stars to your SpecialEvent! The Burke Baker Planetarium may be rented for evening events like lectures and parties.

Tour The CosmosIn Search OfLife!
2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the first experiment to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. In 1960, astronomer Frank Drake used a radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia to listen to two nearby stars. He heard nothing interesting, but the idea of searching for life beyond Earth was born.
Fifty years of searching for signals and occasional broadcasting of messages has not detected any transmissions that require intelligent alien authors. Either intelligent life is much more rare or short-lived than we expected or we are not looking in the right places with the right tools.
Life in the Universe takes a fresh look at this fifty-year-old question, looking forward from the big bang, in search of those special places that might harbor life, including all of the planets in our solar system. It's a beautiful scenic tour of our universe through the eyes of astronomers looking for clues about the origin of life and the development of intelligence.
The vistas are breathtaking from stellar birth clouds like the Orion and Trifid Nebulas to the death throes of Eta Carinae and the mysterious surfaces of nearby planets, their moons and rings. Join the search and enjoy the adventure.
Life in the Universe is partially funded though a NASA public outreach grant directed by Dr. George Fox, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston.
Mix and Post Production - Fish-i Studios
School or large group? Call 713-639-4659 to book this show or visit www.hmns.org.
Invite the Stars to your SpecialEvent! The Burke Baker Planetarium may be rented for evening events like lectures and parties.

published:07 Mar 2013

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Quasars - From the Milky Way to the Edge of the Universe | Curtin University

Survey of Astronomy: Lecture 25 - The Universe / Galaxies

What is science? Is the Moon made of green cheese? What is a star made of? How hot is the sun? What's the difference between a galactic cluster and a globular c...

What is science? Is the Moon made of green cheese? What is a star made of? How hot is the sun? What's the difference between a galactic cluster and a globular cluster? How did the Solar System form? How did the Universe form? Will it last forever? This course tries to answer these questions and many more, providing a comprehensive overview of the objects and events beyond the Earth's atmosphere and the Earth itself, as a planetary member of the Solar System. We'll explore the Sun, the planets, the many other objects found in the Solar System, stars and galaxies, dark matter, dark energy, the fate of the universe, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Learn more about Missouri State iCourses at http://outreach.missouristate.edu/icourses.htm

What is science? Is the Moon made of green cheese? What is a star made of? How hot is the sun? What's the difference between a galactic cluster and a globular cluster? How did the Solar System form? How did the Universe form? Will it last forever? This course tries to answer these questions and many more, providing a comprehensive overview of the objects and events beyond the Earth's atmosphere and the Earth itself, as a planetary member of the Solar System. We'll explore the Sun, the planets, the many other objects found in the Solar System, stars and galaxies, dark matter, dark energy, the fate of the universe, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Learn more about Missouri State iCourses at http://outreach.missouristate.edu/icourses.htm

The Universe: Big and Small by Ashoke Sen

URL: https://www.icts.res.in/outreach/kaapi-with-kuriosity
Kaapi with Kuriosity is a monthly public lecture series organised by the International Centre for Th...

URL: https://www.icts.res.in/outreach/kaapi-with-kuriosity
Kaapi with Kuriosity is a monthly public lecture series organised by the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), in collaboration with the Jawaharlal NehruPlanetarium and the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bengaluru.
The aim of the talks in this series is to really stimulate the curiosity of the public towards the myriad aspects of science. The setting for these talks will be informal with a lot of scope for open discussions. The scientific background assumed will not be beyond the school level. As such, they are easily accessible to school/college students and working professionals.

URL: https://www.icts.res.in/outreach/kaapi-with-kuriosity
Kaapi with Kuriosity is a monthly public lecture series organised by the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), in collaboration with the Jawaharlal NehruPlanetarium and the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bengaluru.
The aim of the talks in this series is to really stimulate the curiosity of the public towards the myriad aspects of science. The setting for these talks will be informal with a lot of scope for open discussions. The scientific background assumed will not be beyond the school level. As such, they are easily accessible to school/college students and working professionals.

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Today on Educate For Life, Kevin’s guest is Dr. Lawrence Krauss. Prof. Lawrence M. Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, where his studies include the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and neutrino astrophysics. He has investigated questions ranging from the nature of exploding stars to issues of the origin of all mass in the universe.
He received undergraduate degrees in both Mathematics and Physics at Carleton University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1982), then joined the Harvard Society of Fellows (1982-85). He joined the faculty of the departments of Physicsand Astronomy at Yale University as assistant professor in 1985, and associate professor in 1988. In 1993 he was named the Ambrose SwaseyProfessor of Physics, Professor of Astronomy, and Chairman of the department of Physics at Case Western Reserve University.
Currently, he is a Professor of Physics at Arizona State University and is Director of the OriginsProject. As planned, Origins will become a national center for research and outreach on origins issues, from the origins of the universe, to human origins, to the origins of consciousness and culture.
With years of study and scientific knowledge, Dr. Krauss thinks it’s more likely than not that there is no God and that the Universe came from nothing. Dr. Krauss and Kevin will discuss this issue and you will get to hear a view you might not always get to hear. If you want to learn more about Dr. Lawrence Krauss and his groundbreaking research, you can go to http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu.
Tune in to Educate For Life to hear a great discussion. You don’t want to miss it.
This episode first aired on Sept. 9, 2017.
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Today on Educate For Life, Kevin’s guest is Dr. Lawrence Krauss. Prof. Lawrence M. Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, where his studies include the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and neutrino astrophysics. He has investigated questions ranging from the nature of exploding stars to issues of the origin of all mass in the universe.
He received undergraduate degrees in both Mathematics and Physics at Carleton University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1982), then joined the Harvard Society of Fellows (1982-85). He joined the faculty of the departments of Physicsand Astronomy at Yale University as assistant professor in 1985, and associate professor in 1988. In 1993 he was named the Ambrose SwaseyProfessor of Physics, Professor of Astronomy, and Chairman of the department of Physics at Case Western Reserve University.
Currently, he is a Professor of Physics at Arizona State University and is Director of the OriginsProject. As planned, Origins will become a national center for research and outreach on origins issues, from the origins of the universe, to human origins, to the origins of consciousness and culture.
With years of study and scientific knowledge, Dr. Krauss thinks it’s more likely than not that there is no God and that the Universe came from nothing. Dr. Krauss and Kevin will discuss this issue and you will get to hear a view you might not always get to hear. If you want to learn more about Dr. Lawrence Krauss and his groundbreaking research, you can go to http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu.
Tune in to Educate For Life to hear a great discussion. You don’t want to miss it.
This episode first aired on Sept. 9, 2017.
Educate For Life with Kevin Conover airs Saturdays, 2-3 PM PT.
Listen live on KPRZ.com and San Diego radio AM 1210.
Join our team, get educated, make a difference. http://join.educateforlife.org
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Composition of the Universe - SPS Outreach

This demonstration briefly explains the history of the universe using jars and colored beads. The jars represent matter/objects and the beads represent the composition of those objects.
See the full activity at https://www.spsnational.org/programs/outreach/composition-universe

0:41

Fabric of the Universe Part 2 - SPS Outreach

explore solar system formation, tides, and planetary rings using a spandex sheet.
See the...

Kendrick Smith Public Lecture: Cosmology in the 21st Century

Cosmologist KendrickSmith gives a guided tour through the expanding universe, from the big bang to our present-day understanding of dark matter and other cosmic phenomena, during his Feb. 4, 2015 public lecture at Perimeter Institute.
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8:43

The Great Photon Escape

In a flash known as the Big Bang, our universe was born. Yet for hundreds of thousands of ...

The Great Photon Escape

In a flash known as the Big Bang, our universe was born. Yet for hundreds of thousands of years, light from the Big Bang was scattered and trapped in a dense fog. Eventually, though, that light made its “great escape” and the universe was plunged into total darkness. These cosmic “Dark Ages” lasted for millions of years until the first stars and galaxies burst to life and began to illuminate the universe. However, no one knows just when this happened or what the earliest stars and galaxies were really like, because we’ve never seen them.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, currently under construction and due to launch in 2018, will use its powerful infrared vision to spy the very first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe and help us understand how today’s universe came to be.
This video is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach and is narrated by Alia Shawkat.
Learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope at http://webbtelescope.org/

43:06

"big-bang: the world, universe, and network in the programming language" by Matthias Felleisen

How do you control communicating actors? How do you implement an SSH server in a truly fun...

"big-bang: the world, universe, and network in the programming language" by Matthias Felleisen

How do you control communicating actors? How do you implement an SSH server in a truly functional style? How do you teach middle school students event-driven programming? How are these questions related?
This talk will present a tour through Racket's world of thinking in a purely functional manner. It will start with the Universe library, which we use for reaching middle school students, and it will end with a sketch of the Network Calculus dialect, a natural research outgrowth of the Universe.
Racket's Universe library is the foundation of the long-running Bootstrap and ProgramByDesign K-12 outreach projects. The library's exports make algebra come alive. With big-bang, a middle-school student's "hello world" program simulates a rocket lift-off:
(define (lift-off t)
(place-image rocket middle (- height t) background))
(define rocket .. some image ..)
(define background .. some image ..)
(define height (image-height background))
(define middle (/ (image-width background) 2))
;; run program run
(animate lift-off)
More generally, middle school students can formulate interactive, graphical programs---animations, video games, or simple editors---with algebra. Even evaluating these programs uses nothing but algebraic calculations.
The key to this approach is big-bang, which turns algebraic functions on numbers, booleans, images, and strings into event handlers and rendering functions:
(big-bang height
[to-draw lift-off]
[on-tick sub1]
[stop-when zero?])
A big-bang expression describes a world with functions. Precisely put, it associates functions with certain events. Each function consumes the state of the world and possibly some additional information; it returns the next state of the world or computes a property of the world.
Naturally a world is not enough. Therefore Universe also exports a universe form, with which students can create a network of worlds. For example, they can turn the above animation into a remote-controlled one with just three lines of code added to the above:
[register LOCALHOST]
[on-key (lambda (w key) (make-package w 'reset))]
[on-receive (lambda (s m) height)]
A beginning student formulates the "universe" server as a top-level function instead of a lambda, but it still doesn't take more than 10 lines.
Even though worlds connected in a universe still consist of algebraic descriptions of state, state transformation, and communication, network connectivity turns the resulting systems into a non-deterministic one. Our college freshmen routinely study and use this material to construct distributed programs at the end of their first semester.
Finally, over the past couple of years, Universe programming has given rise to the idea of folding the network into the programming language. Here a network consists of communicating actors---each of which may be a network itself---and a coordinating messaging board on which actors publish messages and subscribe to them.
The Network Calculus language (NC) is a dialect of Racket that supports programming with these trees of actors. As such, programming in NC resembles programming with actors in Akka or Erlang/OMP, but it also integrates well-known patterns as a language construct.
[[ Attendees are encouraged to install Racket before the presentation and to participate in a small interactive demo midway through the presentation (via pre-packaged code). ]]
Matthias Felleisen
I launched the PLT research group at Rice University that created Racket and has maintained it for the past 20 years.

11:21

Sidewalk Outreach: Center of the Universe

Our time to share with the homeless of Oklahoma City for the month with my church family a...

Visualizing the brain as a universe of synapses

You are looking a visual reconstruction (from array-tomography data) of synapses in the mouse somatosensory cortex, the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsive to sensation. Neurons are depicted in green; multicolored dots represent separate synapses. For more information, visit our news story: http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2010/november/neuron-imaging.html

The Universe Beyond Visible Light - with Jen Gupta

Astrophysicist Jen Gupta explores views of the Universe at wavelengths other than visible light, from familiar objects like our Sun to weird and wonderful distant quasars.
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Jen Gupta is an astrophysicist who loves to talk about how awesome space is with anyone who will listen. She is currently based in the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth where she is the SEPnet/OgdenPhysics OutreachOfficer. She also occasionally works at the Winchester Science Centre as a Planetarium Presenter. In her spare time she help to organise the WinchesterScience Festival.
Jen did her PhD at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester under the supervision of ProfessorIan Browne. Her research looked at active galactic nuclei (AGN) – galaxies that are emitting far more energy from their centres than can be accounted for by their stars. In particular she focused on a subset of AGN called blazars.
This talk was filmed in the Royal Institution on 14 April 2016.
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22:06

Are We Alone in the Universe?

UNSW Physics Outreach investigates some of the biggest questions in physics.
In this epis...

Kendrick Smith Public Lecture: Cosmology in the 21st Century

Cosmologist KendrickSmith gives a guided tour through the expanding universe, from the big bang to our present-day understanding of dark matter and other cosmic phenomena, during his Feb. 4, 2015 public lecture at Perimeter Institute.
Hit the subscribe button to see more PI lectures, interviews, animations, and more.
Find out about upcoming Perimeter Institute Public Lectures: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/general-public/public-lecture-series
Join the conversation:
www.twitter.com/perimeter
www.facebook.com/pi_outreach

"big-bang: the world, universe, and network in the programming language" by Matthias Felleisen

How do you control communicating actors? How do you implement an SSH server in a truly functional style? How do you teach middle school students event-driven programming? How are these questions related?
This talk will present a tour through Racket's world of thinking in a purely functional manner. It will start with the Universe library, which we use for reaching middle school students, and it will end with a sketch of the Network Calculus dialect, a natural research outgrowth of the Universe.
Racket's Universe library is the foundation of the long-running Bootstrap and ProgramByDesign K-12 outreach projects. The library's exports make algebra come alive. With big-bang, a middle-school student's "hello world" program simulates a rocket lift-off:
(define (lift-off t)
(place-image rocket middle (- height t) background))
(define rocket .. some image ..)
(define background .. some image ..)
(define height (image-height background))
(define middle (/ (image-width background) 2))
;; run program run
(animate lift-off)
More generally, middle school students can formulate interactive, graphical programs---animations, video games, or simple editors---with algebra. Even evaluating these programs uses nothing but algebraic calculations.
The key to this approach is big-bang, which turns algebraic functions on numbers, booleans, images, and strings into event handlers and rendering functions:
(big-bang height
[to-draw lift-off]
[on-tick sub1]
[stop-when zero?])
A big-bang expression describes a world with functions. Precisely put, it associates functions with certain events. Each function consumes the state of the world and possibly some additional information; it returns the next state of the world or computes a property of the world.
Naturally a world is not enough. Therefore Universe also exports a universe form, with which students can create a network of worlds. For example, they can turn the above animation into a remote-controlled one with just three lines of code added to the above:
[register LOCALHOST]
[on-key (lambda (w key) (make-package w 'reset))]
[on-receive (lambda (s m) height)]
A beginning student formulates the "universe" server as a top-level function instead of a lambda, but it still doesn't take more than 10 lines.
Even though worlds connected in a universe still consist of algebraic descriptions of state, state transformation, and communication, network connectivity turns the resulting systems into a non-deterministic one. Our college freshmen routinely study and use this material to construct distributed programs at the end of their first semester.
Finally, over the past couple of years, Universe programming has given rise to the idea of folding the network into the programming language. Here a network consists of communicating actors---each of which may be a network itself---and a coordinating messaging board on which actors publish messages and subscribe to them.
The Network Calculus language (NC) is a dialect of Racket that supports programming with these trees of actors. As such, programming in NC resembles programming with actors in Akka or Erlang/OMP, but it also integrates well-known patterns as a language construct.
[[ Attendees are encouraged to install Racket before the presentation and to participate in a small interactive demo midway through the presentation (via pre-packaged code). ]]
Matthias Felleisen
I launched the PLT research group at Rice University that created Racket and has maintained it for the past 20 years.

46:03

Astrobiology: The Search for Life in the Universe

How does life begin and evolve? Does life exist elsewhere in the Universe? Join Montana St...

Fay Dowker Public Lecture - Spacetime Atoms and the Unity of Physics (Perimeter Public Lecture)

Fay Dowker speaks at a Perimeter InstitutePublic Lecture on November 2, 2011.
Black holes are hot! This discovery made by Stephen Hawking ties together gravity, spacetime, quantum matter, and thermal systems into the beautiful and exciting science of "Black Hole Thermodynamics". Its beauty lies in the powerful way it speaks of the unity of physics. The excitement arises because it tells us that there is something lacking in our understanding of spacetime and, at the same time, gives us a major clue as to what the missing ingredient should be. Theoretical physicists at Perimeter Institute and elsewhere are pioneering a proposal, known as Causal SetTheory, for the structure held by these most fundamental atoms of spacetime. In this talk, Professor Dowker describes black hole thermodynamics and argue that it is telling us that spacetime itself is granular or "atomic" at very tiny scales.
More Perimeter Public Lectures can be found at: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/Outreach/Public_Lectures/View_Past_Public_Lectures/

The Children of Ash: Cosmology and the Viking Universe

ProfessorNeil Price delivers the first of three lectures, September 25, 2012, focusing on the fundamental role that narrative, storytelling and dramatisation played in the mindset of the Viking Age (8th-11th centuries), occupying a crucial place not only in the cycles of life but particularly in the ritual responses to dying and the dead.

1:01:10

Learning Space Episode 97: Life in the Universe, the Summer Camp

Learning Space is a weekly Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach, a...

Learning Space Episode 97: Life in the Universe, the Summer Camp

LearningSpace is a weekly Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach, and other ways to share science.
This week, we'll discuss activities that explore astrobiology for middle school kids. This will also be Nicole's last episode as co-host!
http://cosmoquest.org/x/educatorszone/learning-space
Activities discussed:
SeeingThrough Alien Eyes: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/iyacosmos/AlienEyes.pdf
Invent an Alien: http://www.dennisschatz.org/activities/Invent%20An%20Alien.pdf
Starlab Planetarium: http://starlab.com/
Make a Constellation: Link at http://www.astro.virginia.edu/dsbk/resources.phpEyes on the Universe: http://stemideas.org/outreach-projects/mosaic-minds-on-science-activities-in-the-community/mosaic-lesson-plans/eyes-on-the-universe-looking-into-the-past/
Galileoscopes: http://galileoscope.org/
Galileoscopes OpticsGuide: https://www.noao.edu/education/files/Galileoscope-Optics-Guide-1.1.pdf
Building a LunarSettlement: http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/pass/passv07/mssLunarSettlement.pdf
With support from:
Helge Bjorkhaug
Richard Drumm
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LearningSpace

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Gizmodo reported on Wednesday that a former Google engineer is suing the company for discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination ...Chevalier's posts had been quoting in Damore's lawsuit against Google, who is also suing the company for alleged discrimination against conservative white men ... “Firing the employee who pushed back against the bullies was exactly the wrong step to take.” ... But the effect is the same....

OSLO. Sea levels will rise between 0.7 and 1.2 metres in the next two centuries even if governments end the fossil fuel era as promised under the Paris climate agreement, scientists said on Tuesday ...Ocean levels will rise inexorably because heat-trapping industrial gases already em­­itted will linger in the atmosphere, melting more ice, it said. In addition, water naturally expands as it warms above four degrees Celsius (39.2F) ... ....

The woman tasked with caring for accused Florida shooter Nikolas Cruz and his brother have moved quickly to file court papers seeking control of their inheritance the day after the massacre at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School, Newsweek reported. When the mother of Nikolas and Zachary Cruz died from flu-related pneumonia last November, their lives were entrusted to Roxanne Deschamps, the report said....

Special CounselRobert Mueller's probe is prepared to accept a guilty plea from the London-based son-in-law of a Russian businessman after he made false statements during the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to the Washington Post... Tymoshenko was later imprisoned by former president Viktor Yanukovych after signing a controversial deal with Russia for natural gas ... U.S ... U.S....

Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas DarlingTo this day it’s something my aunt hardly mentions, let alone discusses. And like a few other families living in the United States, it’s taboo and completely off limits ... Neither was it as widespread, since Japan had nearly conquered most of East Asia including parts of China. But still, U.S ... authorities continued the comfort station system absent formal slavery ... The U.S ... military authorities ... ....

reportedly ordered the sealing of the administration block of Michael OkparaUniversity of Agriculture Umudike, for non remittance of taxes ... The university spokes person Mrs ... Odefa said the university had begun ......

The PanjabUniversity is planning to install e-notice boards in different departments of the campus ... The university is also following their footsteps ... The university has formed a 13-member committee, ......

A wave of strike action in a bitter row over pensions is getting under way at universities across Scotland...Universities UK says ... The dispute centres on proposals put forward by Universities UK for changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)....

A federal agency has completed its investigation into four Title IX sexual violence complaints against IndianaUniversity and determined that the school didn't mishandle them ... The investigation determined whether the university's Bloomington campus promptly and effectively responded to reports of sexual misconduct beginning in March 2014....

It would be hard to overstate how important the University of Nebraska is to Nebraskans ... products and services to the university; and so much more ... I've seen firsthand how well the university serves our state, the country and the world....

BrownUniversity has barred its men's swimming and diving team from participating in this week's Ivy League Championships as it investigates allegations of hazing. The university said in a statement ... ....

As the city’s understaffed public hospitals struggle with the current surge in flu patients and with an expected spike in the ageing population, one university in Hong Kong has ambitious plans to ensure there are sufficient health care workers in future. OpenUniversity, which was set up by the government in 1989 but is self-funded, on ......